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Simulated workplace
Department

Tooling and Maintenance

Tooling and Maintenance keeps moulds, dies, calibrators, machines and ancillaries in production condition across all three sites. The toolroom services and repairs moulds, runs new tool trials with the setters, and the maintenance team carries out planned and breakdown maintenance under isolation.

Tooling and Maintenance Manager14 staff
Home/Departments/Tooling and Maintenance
Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Service, repair and store moulds and dies to the tool register
  • Run new tool and die trials with production and technical
  • Carry out planned and breakdown maintenance under lock out
  • Inspect and test machine guarding and safety interlocks
  • Manage spare parts, hot runner controllers and ancillary equipment
Performance measures

How we know it is working

89%
Planned maintenance completed on time
14 of 14 machines
Guard and interlock checks completed
3
Tools overdue for service
People

Who works here

KB

Kylie Brennan

Tooling and Maintenance Manager

Kylie is a trade-qualified toolmaker who has run the toolroom and maintenance team for six years and leads the guarding and interlock audit program.